Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pay freeze

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: pay freeze
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.

Example Sentences

"Against a backdrop of economic devastation wreaked by COVID-19, from which the railway has been almost totally insulated by massive sums of public money, the RMT rail union is now calling for industrial action as a pay freeze beckons. [...] While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures"."

Inflected Forms

pay freezes (plural)

Questions

What does pay freeze mean?: A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.

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